[Verlaine]

- The Following is only a theory of my own which I have yet to confirm. This is more of a thought or suspicion that arose in me due to the repeated theme of Satsuki thinking that Shiki was wandering around the town late at night when he in fact wasn't:

(1)- It appears that somehow for some reason, there was a rumor circulating around school that Shiki was wandering around the shopping district in the city late at night. In order to confirm the validity of these rumors, Satsuki went out to the shopping district, and in the late hours of the night, she saw the imposter of Shiki. Thinking that this imposter was Shiki, Satsuki must have followed him and witnessed him killing people. As a result, she judged Shiki to be a person who loves to wander late at night in the city and kill people for pleasure. But this didn't at all lessen her infatuation with Shiki. In fact, the very reason why she became a vampire is due to her being attacked by SHIKI while following the imposter to witness his nightly killings.
- Another interesting thing about this, is that Shiki actually meets this killer and after a small knife clash, they had a very gentlemanly and philosophical killer to killer conversation about society, morality, the world, and just who out of the two of them is the better killer (it was mutually decided w/o a fight to the death that Shiki is the better killer despite the imposter's greater amount of experience).

(2)- It is very likely that the same latency in Satsuki's Spiritual Conception that enabled her to forego the hundreds of years required for a Dead to become a proper vampire had also been acting as an extra sense to tell the true nature of the people around her. It's likely that prior to becoming a vampire, she had the ability to recognize just what kind of people were around her; whether or not they were kind, gentle, selfless, human, non-human, crazy, or have a lust for killing.

- It is due to this ability that Satsuki was able to sense both of Shiki's personalities. The kind, gentle, and compassionate Shiki; and the lustful, confident, and homicidal Shiki. But since she didn't know about Shiki's past and lineage, she was steadfast in her conviction that Shiki is a pure-born killer who desires to kill and nothing else. She doesn't know that his homicidal urges are only towards the the non-humans that are around him (well... even he doesn't know that either...), and that they don't truly belong to the compassionate Shiki that she is familiar with, but a dark and lustful Shiki that neither of them are familiar with.